ISBN:
9781317400943
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (245 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Reclaiming representation
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART I: Understanding Political Representation -- 1. Performative Imaginaries: Pitkin versus Hobbes on Political Representation -- Interests and Responsiveness View -- Constructive Elements of Personhood -- Representation by Fiction and the Spectre of the Ward -- Matter and Makers -- Imagination, Symbols, Representation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. What is Representation? On Being and Becoming a Representative -- 1 The Problem -- 2 Concepts, Norms, and Institutions -- 3 The Concepts of Representation -- 4 Representative, Defined -- 5 Testing the Model. -- 6 Testing Against Alternative Accounts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Performative Representation -- Concepts: Representation, Performance, Performativity -- The Centrality of Performance to Representation -- Set-piece and Everyday Performances of Self -- The Centrality of Performativity to Representation -- Performative Success and Failure -- Performing Concession ("Nothing is Inevitable Here") -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART II: Representation and Legitimacy -- 4. The Two Cultures of Democratic Theory: Responsiveness, Democratic Quality, and the Empirical-Normative Divide -- Introduction -- The Doctrine of Responsiveness -- What Counts as "Democratic Theory"? -- The Rejection of Perfect Responsiveness in All Democratic Theory -- Behind the Disconnect -- Bridging the Two Cultures: Empiricists -- Bridging the Two Cultures: Normative Theorists -- Conclusion: Conversation, not Identity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Toward a Mobilization Conception of Democratic Representation -- The "Constructivist Turn" in Opinion Formation and Preference-Based Democracy -- The Democratic "Rediscovery" of Representation
Abstract:
Hanna Pitkin's "Mobilization" Concept of Representation -- Re-Thinking Re-Presentation -- From Responsiveness to Reflexivity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- PART III: Representation and Democracy -- 6. Representative Democracy is Classless -- The Puzzle of Democratic Representation -- The Democratic Recuperation of Representation -- A Classless Democracy? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. The Democratic Tenor of Political Representation -- 1 Managing the Distance -- 2 A Happy Paradox -- 3 Complicating the Sovereign -- 4 Connecting Representatives and Represented -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8. Representing Affected Interests -- Introduction -- The Representative Turn -- Principles of Inclusion -- Founding the People -- Affected Interests as Practice -- Founding Peoples or Partisanships? -- Judging Between Affected Interests -- Objections to Affected Interests -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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